[JennyS]

Of the active players, the best who haven't won one yet, are Kim and Amelie. How about the best retired players who didn't win one during their career?

 

[Kart]

Mary Joe Fernandez.

I'm sure there were people more qualified for this post than her but I think they were before my time .

 

[bandabou]

Mary Joe Fernandez comes to mind....I remember she had Steffi down on the ropes at one French Open?!

 

[MLF]

This topic has been done so many times.

Helena Sukova is probably the most surprising person not to have won a major singles title.

Next up would be Mary Joe Fernandez who made three finals and led Steffi with a break in the final set of the French Open '93 final. Could have won, was playing the better tennis but was never that far in front to say she should have won it.


Other players who crop up in this topic tend to be Zina Garrison, Rosie Casals,Pam Shriver, Manuela Maleeva Fragniere & Natasha Zvereva.

Other people sometimes mention Kimiko Date, Anke Huber, Dominique Van Roost & Nathalie Tauziat but imo they achieved as much as they could and never would have deserved a slam singles title.

 

[DA FOREHAND]

"Mary Joe Fernandez comes to mind....I remember she had Steffi down on the ropes at one French Open?!"

:lOl: Ask Hingis how far two points are from holding the trophy..

"Next up would be Mary Joe Fernandez who made three finals and led Steffi with a break in the final set of the French Open '93 final. Could have won, was playing the better tennis but was never that far in front."

Any player who makes it to the final "could have won"



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[bandabou]

"Mary Joe Fernandez comes to mind....I remember she had Steffi down on the ropes at one French Open?!"

:lOl: Ask Hingis how far two points are from holding the trophy..

"Next up would be Mary Joe Fernandez who made three finals and led Steffi with a break in the final set of the French Open '93 final. Could have won, was playing the better tennis but was never that far in front."

Any player who makes it to the final "could have won"



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Indeed.....so that is it! I wonder which choke-job by Hingis was worst:´99 French Open or ´02 oz open?! And this from the player who people deemed as having the best head in tennis.

 

[KV]

Pam Schriver alongside Mary Joe Fernandez

 

[QUEENLINDSAY]

Pam Schriver alongside Mary Joe Fernandez

LOL!!!! Both of them are now commentators

 

[bandabou]

LOL!!!! Both of them are now commentators

And saying players that have won more than the two of them COMBINED aren´t talented.

 

[disposablehero]

Kim has set the standard above all who came before. 10 titles in 53 weeks, #1 ranking. But she may be forced to surrender her distinction soon.

 

[TennisLurker]

Kimiko Date could have won Wimbledon 1996, Mary Joe Fernandez should have won a slam at least, she also served for match I think against Seles in the 1991 Australian Open final.

Kkim and Amelia are great players nowadays who never won a slam.

 

[brunof]

I think Chanda Rubin had an excellent chance of winning the Australian Open in 1996.

Obvious choices for the current are Kim and Amelie. And I am going to say Alexandra Stevenson too.

Shame that Natasha couldnt've reached the Wimbledon finals in 1998. Oh so painful.

Would anyone go out on a limb and say Amanda Coetzer? (I never saw her in her prime)

 

[jd]

this topic always brings me to tears...Amelie

 

[gmak]

helena sukova
mary joe fernandez
manuela maleeva - fragniere
natasha zvereva

 

[baleineau]

I wouldn't add Date, Huber or Coetzer. Sure, they went deep in the odd Slam or two, but really they were only ever marginal top-10 players. Okay, so they may have hit a peak in or near the top-5, but that was due to a lack of depth at the time.

Mary Joe and Pam Shriver certainly.

In a similar vein, Sabatini, Martinez and Novotna each deserved more than 1 slam relative to their talent and other achievements. They just seemed to be constantly denied by either Graf, Seles, ASV, Navratilova or Hingis in the final stages.

 

[pan]

Shriver
Sukova
MJ Fernandez
Huber

 

[miranda_lou]

Shriver and Coetzer should have won Slams???? I've never heard anything so ridiculous.:lol: Shriver made the finals of the U.S. Open at the age of 16 or 17 and never got that close again . . . EVER. She was a doubles player, nothing else. That's why she's so hateful as a commentator. She can't get over the fact that she sucked.

Amanda Coetzer did a lot given what she had to work with. She's only 5'2", and couldn't serve particularly well but, in her prime, she could run like the wind and frustrate everybody (especially Steffi Graf) by getting every ball back. She was fun to watch but she was never a threat at a Slam.

Mary Jo Fernandez would be my choice. She had two good chances but blew both. The French against Graf was especially sad. She has said she remembers that one the most.

 

[nash]

Kim by a mile. Of course, I think she will win one eventually.

As for Mary Joe - I never really thought of her as a serious contender, even though she did reach a few grand slam finals. Graf & Seles were just too dominant during that period.

Sukova was definitely dangerous in her day, but again, she was facing Nav & Evert for most of that period, and even Steffi later. I can't really think of anyone that really, really should have won a Grand Slam and didn't, other than Kim.

 

[DA FOREHAND]

I don't think anyone "deserves" or "should-have", won a slam slams should be earned and not given out like sympathy platters.

 

[Kart]

I'd forgotten about Sukova.

I don't think Date was good enough to win a grand slam but I do think that she retired when she was beginning to play her best tennis so there's always going to be a question mark there.

Still I think DA FOREHAND pretty much summed it up in that you have to take your chances or you don't deserve it (Natasha Zvereva Wimbledon 1998 ).

Of course, I may well have felt differently about that if Gaby had not won a slam .